Combined planting and fertilizer-distributer machine.



c. FENNEIL.

COMBINED PLANTING AND FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 7. 1912.

1,178,506. Patented Apr. 11, 1916.

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COMBINED PLANTING AND FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 7-,1912. 1,178,506, Patented Aprrll, 1916. Z SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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COMBINED PLANTING AND FERTIL IZER -DISTRIBUTEH MACHINE.

Specification'of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 11,1916. 2

Application fiiea'r'eb'ruar 7,1912: seiiama. 676,000.

To all whom z't may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES FEN'NEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Huntsville, in the county of Madison and State of Alabama, haveinventednew and useful Improvements in Combined Planting and Fertilizer-Distributer Machines, of which the following is a specification.

An object of'the invention is to provide. a combined planting and fertilizer distributing machinef'or sowingseed'and then cow ering the same with a fertilizer;

The; invention embodies, among other features, a machine, adapted to operateover the ground to create'a furrow into which the'se'edsare dropped, being then adapted tocover these'eds with fertilizer after which a roller, forminga" part of the machlne passing over the furrow pressestheground' around the seeds. 5

For the purpose mentioned, use is'made of'a' frame, ahopper mounted onthe frame and" provided with apartition formingcompartments therein, one of the, compartmentsbeing adapted to contain the seeds and the otherbeingadaptedto contain the fertilizer,

a plowmountedon the frame and adapted] to create a furrow when the frame isoperated" over the ground, means operable in the" hopper to agitatetheseed and the fertilizerso that-the same will pass into the furrow and a roller adapted to operate over the furrow and press the ground around the seeds.

Referenceisto be'had tothe accompanying' drawings constitutingapart of this specification, in which similar characters of] reference denote cor-responding parts in theviews, and in which I Figure 1' is a side elevation of'mydevice. Fig. 2 is a verticallongitudinal sectional View of the machine as disclosed in Fig. 3. Fig. 3'isa plan view. Fig; 4 is a vertical transverse sectional view taken on the line 4% in Fig; 1,1ooking in the direction of all the arrow. Fig. 5 is a perspectiveview of a locking. bar forming-a partof my device.

Fig. 6 is an end view of one of the toothed wheels, showing the squared shank thereof.

Referring more particularlyto the drawings, I provide a frame 10, consisting of I side bars 11 provided with an='axle 12 having wheels 13 keyed thereto,-"a hook 14 being secured tothe front of the frame 11 for attaching suitable" draft animals thereto and tainfertilizer Extending horizontally through thehopper'lfi is a shaft'20having hubs 21*, 22" keyed" thereto and rotatable" therewith, suitable paddles"23; 24c' being secured to the hubs 21, 22 respectively and rotatahle'therewith to *agit ate"theicontentsof" theicompartments 18; 19': Byireferring to Fig. 2 it will'bef seen'that thepaddles23"; 2. L

are arranged differently on the hubs 21, 22

respectively for the purpose offacilitating;

the agitation: of the" materials contained in the compartments ofthe hopper. Openings 25, .26" are provided 111' the bottoms of the compartments 1 8; 19 and secured" to the underside of'thehopper' 16, toregister with:

theopeningi2'5, isga discharge'pipe 27 "termi.

nating -in a. flared plow or furrow opener 28, the 'flared sides of the-plow being adapt ed" to converge at their forward ends and form a curved bar 29 connected to thefront end of the) frame 11, (the said bar '29being braced to the side bar's'll by means" o fupwardly diverging braces 29 Formed on the free terminal of. the" bar 29fis' an upstandlng socket 30 adapted to: receive the" lowermost end of the discharge pipe: 271) Secured-to'theunder side of the hopper '16 di scharg pipei 3O arranged to permit the. discharge of the" contents of the compart? ment 19; the mentioned discharge'pipe 3O being bent so that the discharge end thereof will be: located immediately in the rear ofthe discharge'p'ipe 27and in horizontal longitudinal alinement therewith. 7

One-end of the shaft 20 extends outwardly a distancebeyond the hopper16 andistprovided with a* squaredportion 31', a- 'nutf82 and-registering with the opening'26- isa being secured to the end of the shaft to" retainthereon a toothed wheel 33 provided" with an integral? squared shank 34. The

toothed wheel 38-i's loosely mounted on the exterior end of the shaft 20 and the squared shank of the toothed wheel is adapted to fit over the squared portion 31' of the shaft,

thus causing the shaft to rotate with the wheel. When it is desired to retain the shaft 20 in stationar position, thus preventing the paddles 23, 24 from revolving within the compartments 18, 19, the squared shank 34 of the toothed wheel 23 is disengaged from the squared portion 31 of the shaft 20 and a locking bar 35, pivotally mounted on a side of the hopper 16 and provided with .a squared offset portion 36 and a semi-circular cutout portion 37, is swung downwardly so that the squared offset portion 36 thereof will fit over the squared portion 31 of the shaft 20, thus locking the shaft 20 in stationary position, while the toothed wheel 33, loosely mounted on the shaft 20 will continue to revolve without imparting a rotative movement to the shaft.

The axle 12 is provided with a squared portion 38 to which is rigidly secured a toothed wheel 39 and a chain 40 is passed over the toothed wheel 33 and the toothed wheel 39, thus causing the toothed wheel 33 to revolve when the axle 12 is revolved, the mentioned axle 12 being revoluble with the wheels 13. Mounted between the wheels 13 and journaled on rounded portions of the axle 12 are hangers 41 having a shaft 42 journaled in the lower ends thereof, a roller 43 being keyed to the said shaft, the said roller being adapted to normally operate over the ground. A chain 44 is connected to a bar 45 secured to the hangers 41 and the other end of the chain is secured to a lever 46, pivotally mounted on the frame 11, the said lever being provided with a locking lever 47 adapted to actuate a locking rod 48, operable over a rack 49 secured to the side bars 11.

In the use of my device, assuming that the compartment 18 is filled with seed and the compartment 19 is filled with a fertilizer, when the frame 10 is operated over the ground, the plow 28 will create a furrow and the toothed wheel 33 being connected with the shaft 20 to rotate the same will cause the paddles 23, 24 to rotate, thus agitating the contents of the compartments 18, 19 so that theseed in the compartment 18 will pass through the opening 25 and drop into the furrow formed by the plow, the fer tilizer contained in the compartment 19 being adapted to pass through the discharge pipe 30, in the rear of the discharge pipe 27 and drop into the furrow to cover the seed.v

Now as the frame moves along, the ground which has been raised by the plow in creating the furrow, will gravitationally fall back into the furrow and the roller 43 passing over the ground will press the same in the furrow and pack the ground closely around the seeds and fertilizer. Should it be found necessary to dispense with the use of the roller 43, the locking rod 48 is disengaged from the rack 49 by actuating the locking lever 47 and then by raising thelever 46, the roller 43 will be raised from the ground, after which the locking rod 48 is permitted to reengage the rack 49, thus retaining the roller in spaced relation to the ground, as will be readily understood. By disengaging the squared shank 34 of the toothed wheel 33 from the squared portion 31 of the shaft 20 and swinging the locking lever 35 into position to lock the shaft 20, the paddles 23 and 24 will be prevented from rotating in the compartments 18, 19 as has been heretofore described.

From theforegoing description it will be seen that a device is provided, which in its operation over the ground, first creates a furrow into which the seed and fertilizer are permitted to pass and the ground that has been raised in producing the furrow is then repacked by the roller 43, the entire operation of creating the furrow, agitating the seed and fertilizer to permit the same to pass into the furrow and the action of the roller in compressing the ground, raised in forming the furrow being coincident with the operation of the frame over the ground.

I claim:

A combined planting and fertilizer distributer comprising a frame, an axle, wheels mounted upon the axle, a hopper thereon, a shaft journaled in the hopper and having one end projecting beyond one of the side faces thereof and provided with a squared portion, paddles mounted to rotate with the shaft, a toothed wheel mounted upon the squared portion of the shaft, means on the free end of the projecting portion of the shaft for preventing any accidental displacement of said toothed wheel therefrom, another toothed wheel on said axle, a chain passing over both toothed wheels for imparting movement to the paddles upon the progressive movement of said distributer, and a bar pivotally mounted on the hopper and formed with a squared offset portion formed with a semi-circular cut-out portion, the squared portion of said bar fitting over the squared'portion of the shaft upon the displacement of the first mentioned toothed wheel from the squared portion of the shaft and adapted to lock the paddles, against movement upon further progressive movement of the distributer.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses 1S CHAS. FENNEL. mark. Witnesses:

L. L. WIKLE, T. M. STUART.

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